Sitting on the throne, the gray-haired king, with the muscles on his face twisted in pain, looked extremely ferocious. He let out an unpleasant gasping sound like an aging bellows, then raised a hand and covered his mouth.
"Ahem!" A violent cough sounded. Along with the cough, smelly black blood splashed onto his palms. Because he coughed up too much dirty blood, some dirty blood dripped onto his robes and throne.
It looked very desolate.
"Father!" A crying voice sounded. A gorgeously dressed little girl, less than ten years old, looked at the king who was coughing up blood with red eyes. Tears were rolling in her eyes, as if they would fall down at any time.
"Don't cry, Remilia, you heir to the Rockman Kingdom." Seeing his worried daughter, the king, who was in extreme pain in body and soul, tried to keep his face calm and look a little better.
But with his current appearance, no matter who he is, even this young princess who is not familiar with the world knows that her father will not live long, and he will not even be able to survive today.
"I don't want to inherit the throne, I just want my father." The blue-haired little princess rushed over and wanted to hug her father tightly, just like she did when she was a child. In her eyes, her father's arms are the safest place in the world.
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"Remilia, stop, you are the one who is about to inherit the throne, why are you so rude?" King Bella Dean, who was sitting high on the throne, saw his daughter who wanted to hug his daughter, and his face suddenly became extremely serious.
, scolded sternly.
"Father." Seeing the middle-aged man on the throne, even though he looked haggard, his face was still full of majesty. Remilia felt a little aggrieved and stopped. She was only a few steps away from her father.
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"Step back." Seeing that his beloved little daughter was also his only remaining descendant, the king, who was almost exhausted, retracted his hands into his sleeves and robes, held them tightly, and suppressed his emotions.
mood.
He couldn't let his daughter touch him, touch his body that was completely exhausted and was actually supported by his clothes. He couldn't let his young daughter worry about him.
"Just stand there and I want to explain something to you."
"Father, can you hold me and talk to me."
"No." The king, whose nails were already digging into his flesh, rejected his daughter's request, "Remilia, you are about to ascend the throne, and you can no longer be willful."
"I don't want to be a king." The little princess burst into tears.
"But you have no choice." King Bella Dean, who has only a few days to live, sighed, "Your brother and sister were murdered by those rebellious people, and you are the only one of my descendants left. The entire country has only one
You are the only one who has the right to inherit."
Bella Dean did not explain any nonsense about how to become a king. He himself was a failed king and was not qualified to teach his descendants. Moreover, he had already planned it, so he did not need to give instructions.
There are too many, and what should be arranged has already been arranged.
The king, who simply wanted to find his little daughter and fulfill his duties as a father before his own life ended, after chatting with his daughter for a long time, summoned the palace servant through the messenger ring in his hand.
"Go and inform all the ministers in the royal capital and the nobles with titles above the earl level, and let them enter the palace to meet the next king of the Rockman Kingdom."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The chamberlain looked at Princess Remilia standing in the center of the hall with a complicated look, which contained many emotions. It is not a good thing to inherit the throne of the Rockman Kingdom now, and you will have to endure unimaginable things.
Pressure, a little carelessness can lead to death.
Not long after, one after another high-ranking nobles and ministers arrived one after another, entering the hall that symbolized the highest power center of the Rockman Kingdom. After saluting, they waited with low eyebrows for the last words of the king who was about to die soon.
Order.
At this time, almost no one would put on any airs to deliberately delay time and challenge the king's majesty. The king, who was about to die soon, was a sick lion, and no one wanted to try the consequences of offending him now.
Bella Dean, this unqualified king, only did one thing when these subjects who were nominally obeying him entered this hall. He asked his little daughter Remilia to stand beside him.
Then he looked coldly at these guys who looked very respectful.
He knew that among these seemingly respectful guys, there must be some who wanted to fall to the ground and die immediately. In the Rockman Kingdom, there were too many ambitious people coveting the throne under him.
His current state is the best proof. He was originally in his prime, but now he needs to rely on medicine to maintain his life. Even so, he doesn't have much time to live.
Not only that, in the past few years, nearly ten of his heirs have died one after another due to various "accidents". Now, among his descendants, only Remilia, who has never left the palace, is still alive.
Such a situation made him angry, but there was nothing he could do about it. There were now fourteen legends in the entire Lockman Kingdom, and only five of them would obey the royal family. The rest were various nobles. Now that the royal power is declining, some of them have already listened.
I no longer feel like listening to propaganda.
But fortunately, the royal family with five legendary members is still the most powerful force in the Lockman Kingdom, so no big noble family dares to openly rebel against the royal family.
But even this situation made the king feel angry. Although the royal family still had the most powerful force, it did not have the absolute advantage and lost the absolute right to speak that it had at the beginning of the founding of the country.
He no longer had the confidence to lift the table, so even if his own blood descendants died suddenly one after another, the king could only endure it and could not control his own thoughts.
"Your Majesty, everyone is here." When the hall was filled with nearly fifty high-ranking "big shots", the chamberlain who went out to convey orders came to the king and said respectfully.
Bella Dean waved his hand and asked the chamberlain to step back, then looked down at his seemingly respectful courtiers and expressed his decision:
"From today on, Remilia Scarlet is the queen of the Rockman Kingdom."
"Your Majesty, is this too hasty?" After hearing Bella Dean announce Remilia's succession to the throne so simply, a court earl couldn't help but said.
"It is not a formal succession. Remilia is too young now. She can be crowned king, but she cannot control the king's authority. She does not have the ability to manage the Rockman Kingdom.
So before she has the ability to govern the country and formally inherits the throne, I need someone who can temporarily manage the Rockman Kingdom for my daughter."